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Taming the wild

This paper explores the role that brainstorming plays and should play in the innovation process; does it really deliver what it promises? An emerging disconcert is at the heart of this question; has 'creativity' started to lead its own life, has it...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Author: Anneke De Jong

February 27, 2005

Speeding up innovation and squeezing more insights

Innovation research, crucial though it is to the process, takes significant amounts of time and can be a huge momentum killer, requiring four to six weeks for each round of results. When the results are less than hoped for, there is little or no time...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Author: John Kearon

Company: BrainJuicer

February 27, 2005

Creative brainstorming

'If you re not failing every now and again, it s a sign you re not doing anything very innovative.' Woody Allen.Woody Allen is an excellent example of an innovative thinker. He's provocative, controversial, and often misunderstood. This is because he...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Author: John Storey

February 27, 2005

Creativity on tap

Organisations that lack creativity will fail. Traditionally new product ideas have come from many sources both within an organisation, e.g. management brainstorming, or from outside the organisation through traditional marketing research techniques...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Authors: Clive Nancarrow, Jenny Clark, Lex Higgins, Martin Oxley

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

February 27, 2005

The case for in-the-box innovation

This paper describes a groundbreaking international case study proving that a much larger number of relevant, actionable, and original new product ideas can be generated by using creativity techniques that encourage 'in-the-box' thinking as opposed...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Authors: Leyla Namiranian, Gwen Smith Ishmael

Company: Decision Analyst, Inc.

February 27, 2005

Good design= good experience= good business

Innovation is a theme that runs through every experience IDEO designs whether manifest in a product or a service, an environment or digitally. We have developed methods and tools to stimulate innovation and get from great idea to reality really...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Author: Alan South

February 27, 2005

Reengineering the research process

Innovation in the early decades of the market research industry was demand and product focussed while in the later stages the innovation was driven by the availability of new techniques and was process focused.It depends on the business model a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Authors: Sander van Meeuwen, Dirk Huisman

Company: SKIM

February 27, 2005

Partners in innovation

This paper addresses innovative online qualitative research with pharmacists across Canada. The paper explores why innovation is crucial to business success and how companies can work together to foster new ideas; how an online methodology yielded...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Authors: Mike Gadd, Laurie Thompson, Rachelle Deshaies

November 28, 2004

Smashing the mould of qualitative research

Buyers and practitioners the world over are calling for innovation in qualitative research and yet there are definite expectations governing how qualitative research should be conducted.The authors outline the framework or mould that current...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Authors: Jem Wallis, Neil Brooks-Jones

November 28, 2004